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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's...Siegfried Sassoon Robert CurzonVisits to Monasteries in the LavantPrint: Book
1800-1849'Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regu... [n/a]Northern StarPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Another sweltering day. News in the paper of a great air raid on London in which 80 people have been killed and several hundreds wounded. Apparently all the German plane...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had so...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had so...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with what Taylor described as 'morbid satisfaction'.'David John Thomas Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till she must have known by heart every incident of that famous work. She was partial to telling the sto...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in October 1911 when he happened to buy a book of new ...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroBefore Dawn: Poems and ImpressionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Answer to prayer: [May] came in safe and early Read Fanny Burney (Court of George III)'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance HillFanny Burney at the Court of Queen CharlottePrint: Book
1850-1899'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even w...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose they've got plenty of money. And income Tax- I was read... unknownarticle about Oswald MosleyPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall. Poor Arras! It is in a worse condition than ever...Robert Lindsay Mackay Henry JonesBrowning as a Philosophical and Religious TeacherPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1800-1849'April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We shall before his face appear And by his side sit do...Betty Shaw Charles Wesley[Hymn] Come on my Partners in DistressPrint: Book
1900-1945'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home wit...Martin Wentworth Littlewood The Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home wit...Martin Wentworth Littlewood [A work on vegetal medicine]Print: Book
1600-1699'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's offering his only son etc., little thinking (as I to...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'April at Scarboro''Sarah Good William BlackA Daughter of HethPrint: Book
1850-1899'April. Sustained interest'Sarah Good Lily DougallBeggars All: A NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'Apropos to Garrick when I dined at Hampton last there was a pompous Reading of some pretty Verses from A Gentleman to [italics] his own [end italics] wife with a Knife -...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses on a lady and a pen knife]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [end italics] and would tell it to me, to whom it migh...Mr Perkins  Print: Book


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